Johnny Weir

Mind the gap. The person in charge of that for U.S. Figure Skating is very aware it is growing larger and more dangerous for the sport's future in this country every year. "I look at the numbers all the time," Mitch Moyer said. The numbers in question are the eight-season gap since a U.S. woman last won a singles medal at the Olympics or world championships and the four-season gap since a U.S. man has done it. For the women, that drought is a historic negative. It is both the longest ever at worlds and the only period since the aftermath of the 1961 plane crash that killed the elite of U.S. skating that American women have gone without an Olympic medal or more than two...

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Mind the gap.
The person in charge of that for U.S. Figure Skating is very aware it is growing larger and more dangerous for the sport's future in this country every year.
"I look at the numbers all the time," Mitch Moyer said.
The numbers in...

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At face value, the results were just plain poor.
Three-time U.S. champion Jeremy Abbott ninth, training mate Adam Rippon tenth in Friday's short program at the World Figure Skating Championships at Nice, France.
That adds up to 19. The two U.S....

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